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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Issues of representing the Holocaust in Israel through various cultural media, such as literature, film, criticism, historiography, legal documents, and music. The limits of representation: the historical and ideological deployment of Holocaust representation in different cultural contexts. Instructor: Ginsburg
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1.00 Credits
Nineteenth-century travel and imperialism; contemporary tourism; the relationship between leisure and power, globalization and consumption, the role of gender, sex and exploitation. Instructor: Stein
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1.00 Credits
Popular culture in the Middle East and images of the Middle East in United States' popular culture, covering a variety of cultural forms, including film, music, and comic books. How cultural forms relate to political and historical processes. Wars and political conflicts; gender, race, sexuality, and ethnicity. Instructor: Stein
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1.00 Credits
Introduction to Israeli and Palestinian culture, politics, and society and the central historical events of the Israel/Palestinian conflict. From early Zionist settlement in Palestine in the late nineteenth century and concluding with the 'Peace Process' of the 1990s, the second Palestinian uprising (Intifada), and the Israeli military reoccupation of the Palestinian territories. Ethics of both the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian resistance struggles against occupation. Instructor: Stein
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1.00 Credits
The literary, historic, linguistic, and ethnic diversity of South Asia presented through both readings and contemporary films. Not open to students who have taken Religion 160. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
A comparative approach to Israeli cinema, in the context of American and European cinemas. Cinema and nationalism. Cinematic representations of social, political, racial, and ethnic tensions and fissures: social gap, immigration to and emigration from Israel, militarism and civil society, masculinity and femininity, and the Israeli-Arab conflict. Popular culture and its relationship with high culture. Instructor: Ginsburg
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1.00 Credits
An examination of modern Japanese culture through a variety of media including literary texts, cultural representations, and films. Different material each year. Instructor: Ching or Yoda
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1.00 Credits
A chronological overview from earliest times until today. Begins with a brief introduction to Korean language and history as they relate to the study of literature. Novels, essays, classics, and various other genres. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
History, thought and practice of Buddhism in Korea from nineteenth century to present. Topics include colonial Buddhism; relationship with Christianity and Japanese Buddhism; reform movements; post-colonial factionalism; North Korea; critical role of nuns; response to Westernization of society; temples in America. Attention to influence of religious persecution, colonialism, modernity, nationalism, democracy, and globalization on Buddhist reformers, institutions, practices, and rituals. Readings drawn largely from primary sources (in translation), supplemented by secondary works. No prior knowledge of Korean language/culture/Buddhism required. Instructor: Kim
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1.00 Credits
The impact of 9/11 on Arab culture. Considers post-1990 films and fiction by Iraqis, Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Saudi Arabians, Tunisians, and Egyptians. The collapse of socialism in 1989 and the Gulf War as a turning point in the Arab world. Intensified awareness of the role of the United States in the region as a result of 9/11, of religion as a politically effective force, and of the Muslim difference in the homogenized consumerist global system. Response to these challenges in novels, films, and popular culture that draw on folktales, Sufism, magical realism and the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Instructor: Cooke
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